Details:
- Salary: £65,000 - 70,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Stockport Greater Manchester
- Date: 1 day ago
Description:
Sewell Wallis are recruiting a Finance Manager for a growing Greater Manchester PE-backed property business in Stockport.
A senior technical accounting role supporting ~160 entities, with a key focus on property disposals, acquisitions and entity restructurings depending on performance.
Responsible for accounting for complex transactions across multi-tier group structures, including debt, distributions, capitalisations and revaluations.
Requires strong technical accounting, Excel modelling and legal document review skills, with the ability to translate complex transactions into the correct accounting treatment.
This role would suit someone Practice trained, with experience in a large multi-entity business, who is currently doing complex consolidations, or someone from a Transactions and M&A background, and is keen to take their next step into a phenomenal business which will offer massive growth opportunities. This role reports to the Head of Project Accounting, who is a great mentor!
What will you be doing?
Support the Head of Accounting with review of approx. 160 entities, which involves complex consolidations of accounts.
Lead accounting for property acquisitions, disposals and annual revaluations across relevant entities.
Build and maintain Excel models for restructures, debt, distributions, capitalisations and other complex transactions.
Analyse multi-tier group structures and transaction flows across holding companies, subsidiaries, partnerships and trusts.
Review legal documentation to determine the appropriate accounting treatment for transactions.
Provide technical accounting guidance, training and review to the wider finance team and senior stakeholders.
Investigate and resolve complex accounting issues, including intercompany and entity-level discrepancies.
Support reporting, audit, finance transformation and process improvement initiatives, strengthening controls and efficiency.What skills are we looking for?
Qualified Accountant - ACA/ACCA
Experience working in a large multi-entity business
Confident with complex consolidations of 50+ entities.
Strong stakeholder management experience
Confident in questioning transactions and challenging information that appears incomplete, inconsistent or unsupported.
Highly proactive, motivated and comfortable taking ownership of deliverables.What's on offer?
Starting salary of £70,000
20% annual bonus
Company pension (7%)
Health Insurance
Exciting quarterly social events
Hybrid working - 3 days on site
On site gym
Free Parking
Local to the train stationSend us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions